The Sun. — London, England, 1838-02-26 00:00:00

MAIL Duel _ Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. t, .11:acrica.......... 0 2 France.___ ........ 0 0 Lisbon 0 8razi1............. 0 1 Guern. & Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg ..... ... 1 0 Mezleo ....... 1 0 car .. .hagena...... 0 0 Holland ...... .... 1 0 Ostend 0 1 Du! 1in........... 1 0 Jamaica .......... 0 0 Sweden.... ..... i Flai.ders HIGH WATER AT LONDON ERID6E TO-MORROW, Moning 6 minutes after 4 I Evening !4 minutes after 4 The publication of Tux SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 30 minutes past Three ot Clock. WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1833. Our readers will find in another place a ♦ery useful ar ticle on the Coal Trade, which sets in a striking light the disadvantages of the present system. About 19 or 20 fac tors divide amongst them annually upwards of 400,0001. But the tax they levy on the community is of far less injury than their means of doing it, by which they compel the whole of the colliers to be idle, on an average, more than the half their time, and waste the public wealth and the public resources to the extent of at least 500,0001. per year. This is pure loss, for the money might as well be thrown into the sea as employed to pay to ships rotting in inactivity, and for seamen kept in unwilling idleness. Nature has bestowed on us most bounteously, in our vast mineral wealth, and in the great industry and ingenuity of our people the means of providing for the health and happiness of all ; and her bounties are kept from the great mass by a system which wastes the public wealth to enrich a few individuals. About 260,000 householders in the metropolis and in its environs of the poorer classes, and ►bout 40,000 of the more opulent classes, with manufac turers of various kinds, are all taxed alike—the poor being deprived of necessaries, and the opulent of comforts, to sustain this system. How long the patience of the people will tolerate it, we cannot foresee; but they ought to deluge the Committee, now sitting to investigate the sub ject, with petitions. We applaud highly every exertion of of our patriots to lessen the burdens of the people, but we doubt whether any one of the taxes levied on the public to keep up an unnecessary army, or to pay the pensions of profligate courtiers, ever inflicted half as much misery on the community as the tax levied on our fuel by the combination and monopoly of the factors, and levied in spite of the authority of Parliament. Not to be taxed e r,Aout his own consent is the privilege of every freeman; but' we allow coal-factors and cool-owners to do that which we would 14y down our lives to resist if attempted by the Monarth on his Throne. Lord JOHN RUSSELL announces in a letter to Mr. Alderman VFNABLES, the Chairman of the City Police Committee, that it is the intention of the Goveinmcnt to p:opose a measure for placing the City Police under the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police. This must be g‘od news to all but those City functionaries who prefer patronage to good police—their hangers-on, who expect, and 0 ,7 , - o v get, appointments for which they are totally unfit, at tiu, expense of the inhabitant s ; an d t h ose gent l emen w h o e i l i,n a prescriptive right. to refuge within the ancient walls when chased by the myrmidons of Colonel ROWAN. vn:ether Whig or Tory, have shown great defe rence to the G.' y authorities, and in that spirit when the Metropolitan Police was established, though there was every reason for placing. the police of London on a uniform footing, Sir RoBER'r PEEL yielded to the xesnonstrances of the parties interested, and allowed ti , eln to regulate their own police. The experiment has vow been tried for nearly ten years, and the re sult has only proved that the objections to a separate estab lishment are stronger than ever. The first great inconve niency aria's from the anomaly of allowing a system of police to exiot in the heart of the metropolis, not only totally unconnected with the police of the surrounding districts, but the different parts of the same unconnected with each other. There are, in fact, twenty-six different Boards of ; the watchmen under these Boards are confined to the ;r own wards, and such are their high notions of indivi duality that instances are known where robberies have been comrnftt ed, and the watchman would not cross the street to do what wats.neeessary, because it was out of his ward. From the defective mode of appointment, too, the present City police are extremely inefficient. According to evi dence given before the Committee of last Session, they are incomparably inferior to the Metropolitan police. One witness stated that the Metropolitan police is, fifty to one, the best ; another stated that there are periods of the day ornight when, for an hour and a half, there are no men on duty at all : and it was added that many of the old police are still employed, and that the one half of these have re ceived more money from the old thieves they suffered to remain, .than they have for their services from the public. In addition to these facts, the cost of the City police is nearly double the cost of the Metropolitan Police, and according to an estimate of the Metropolitan Commis sioners, a saving of about 14,000/. a-year might be effected by the proposed consolidation. The necessity for doing away with the nuisance, indeed, is so obvious, that we doubt if even the Court of Aldermen will venture seriously to oppose it. Ti se Half-yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders of the. Northern and Central Bank of England was held at Martel ,ester on Thursday last. A statement of the affairs of the concern made up to the 30th December last was laid be fore the Meeting by the Directors, from which it apiwars that the outstanding liabilities amount to 354,1:7t.d. 9s. Id., and the estimated value of the assets to 811,:1.56/. Bs. 11d. The total ultimate loss will, it is c omputed, be about 312,017/. Os. 3d. ; the loss already sustained is about four pounds per share. Great and just blame was attributed to the former Directors for their incautious advances, as well as for the abuse of their trust, .in speculating with the money of the Shareholders. A elm ge was even brought against one of these gentlemen, that he had availed himself of the " parson's plea," in order to evade the payment of the debt which he owed to the Bank. The Act; of Parliament just passed for the purpose .of legalizing the construction of the Company, which, it seems, had been put without the pale of the law, by having parsons among its shareholders, renders such a plea. null and void ; but if there be among the late Directors, a man capable of urging such a plea, we ought not to wonder at the fate which has befallen this Bank: The whole of the debt to the Bank of England has been paid off, and 30,000/. of that due to the London and Westminster. A resort ttion was unanimously passed, stating " that, in the opinion ,of this meeting, the various profits realized by such of the Directoe's as sold and trafficked in shares, having been so realized out of do funds and property of the proprietors, taken without their knowledge or consent, and applied by the said Directors to their own use, with the silver plate obtained under false 27,-e -tentes, ought to be refunded forthwith." Woulc, l it no•t be advisable after this to change the name of the Corn pang, should the meeting of the Sharehohlers, which is to take place at an early day, for the purpose of determin ing wl tether the Bank shall resume business or not, decide in the .affirmative? By tile Yew York packet-ship Mediator, which arrived yesterday at Portsmouth, we have received New York Papers of the Ist inst. inclusive. They bring advises from Lower Canada to the 23d, and from the Upper Pro vince to the 17th ult. The rebellion appears to be at an end, as the remnant of the Navy Island insurgents have beer, driven from Bois Blanc and Sugar Island, after losing all t weir arms and stores. When Governor MasoN landed on S ugar Island, in order to apprise the rebels that-. if they (lid not quit the United States territory, or peace ably lay &m a their arms, force would be employed agains t them, lie foural that the puissant host that had undert: iken to brave. Ile Power of England did not exceed 1.50 1 nen, o! whoa t two-thirds were noted vagabonds from the States. They lad the good sense to see that resistance wi rald be 'hope:ea s ; so, after being conveyed to the main lan lc', they dispersed in various directions. To guard against • :he an_ noyance o f another hornet's nest, Sir FRANCIS )3osn HEAD, after examining Navy Island, has given orders for its occupancy by a military force. There is no news of any interest from Lower Canada. There the Loyalists have all their own way, and if not re strained by the Government, seem determined to wreck their revenge upon the suspected. The Tories are openly crying out for blood and confication, to sate their revenge, and gratify the avarice of the Ultra Loyalists. We sin cerely trust that the Government will express its horror of such detestable sentiments, and that it will mark, as objects of obloquy, those who give utterance to them. The fiends who thus avow their thirst for blood were not loyal from fidelity to the Queen, or attachment to Great Britain ; they were guided by their evil passions—by their cruelty and their avarice—to oppose the visionary schemes of the deluded victims of PAPINEAU'S machinations. The knowledge of the designs of the Tories should hasten the departure of Lord DURHAM, whose presence is necessary to assure the peaceable habitans of protection. The Noble Earl must know too much of the colonial adventures of Colonel ARTHUR, to trust to that Gallant Governor's ad ministration of any portion of the power vested in his Lordship by the Canada Pacification Bill. The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have been received. Their contents are of no political in terest. On Friday a rumour prevailed on the Bourse that Don CARLOS was taken prisoner, but it was not gene_ rally credited. It was likewise reported on Saturday that Queen VICTORIA had invited the Dukes of ORLEANS and NEMOURS to be present at her MAJESTY'S Coronation ; but that only the Duke of NEMOURS would come to Lon don on that occasion. In the Chambers no discussions of any interest took place on Friday or Saturday. The Ministers have ob tained a majority of their friends in the Committee for examining the grant for secret service. The Diario di Rama of the 13th, announces that at a Con sistory held by the POPE on a previous day, his Holiness raised to the rank of Cardinals the following Bishops and Archbishops :—MAID, Secretary of the Propaganda ; MEL- Lim, Archbishop of Ravenna ; Ottior..r, Bishop of Or vieto ; MEZZOFANTI, Librarian of the Vatican ; CIACCHI, Governor of Rome ; LicoLfm, Minister of War ; and four others, whom the POPE declined naming for the present. It is confidently asserted that the Archbishop of COLOGNE is one of the four, and that he has been raised to the dig nity of Cardinal, to mark the Holy See's approbation of his conduct in the dispute with Prussia. The following are extracts from the Journals : The Universal Gazette of Berne, a Journal of the Swiss Aristocracy, and consequently initiated into all the secrets of diplomacy, says that our Ambassador, the Duke of Monte bello, is extremely desirous to have the resolution of the Congress of Vienna applied to Prince Louis (son of Queen Hortensia), which prohibits the members of the family of Na poleon from residing in Italy (except in the Roman States), Belgium, and Switzerland. It is further announced that the Diplomatic notes on this subject will be shortly presented ; and that those of the other powers will be added to that of the French Government. The Messager has a letter from Bayonne of the 18th, which says that " Two mercantile houses in that city, connected with the Pretender, have received notice from their correspon dents at Paris, to have three millions of francs at the disposal of Don Caries, which will be very seasonable to pay for the clothing and equipments which have been furnished, chiefly for Basilia's expedition." The same Journal says, we are assured that a Courier has arrived from Bayonne this morning, with the news of a san guinary battle on the Banks of the Ebro, in which the Queen's troops, under the Conde de Luchana, were defeated with the loss of one thousand men, and obliged to quit the field in the greatest disorder. The Bayonne Journals of the 20th say nothing of such a defeat, but speaks of an advantage gained by Espartero. Neither the Gazette de France ❑or the Ministerial Evening Journals speak of the affair ; so that we may hope that the Measager is ill informed.—Commerce, Feb. - 24. EIIENC:H 1 , NDs —Pa RP.. FEW 21. Five per (*en tg.. 109 f. 110 c. 110 f. 109 f. 93c, 10c. Four and a Half ner Cents. lin . . Four per Cents., v:v. l'hre t :ser Centr 79f. t , 3c. Bank Actions, 2,6 71. POc. 2,63 if. itente oe Naples, 99f. 15c. I+9f: Roman Five ia,!r Cents.. 101 M. Spanish Passives, 4% 4 Belgian Loan, 10114. Belgian Bank, 1,515 f. 1,517 f. 30c. Dutch Twu and a Half per Cents., 34. MICHANCIL 05 1.05005. One month, paper, —f. —c z money, 25:. 30c Three months, paper. 251. nsc. ; money, 251. 35c. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 109 f. 90c. Three per Cents. 79f. SO. Bank Actions, 2 , 0551. Romans 10i 7<, Belgian Romans, 1044. Belgian Bank, 1,5171;r0c. Spanish Passives, 4. Brussels and German Journals, with advices from Con stantinople of the 25th ultimo, have reached us this morn ing. The Belgian Chambers are busied with discussing the Jury Laws, which are yet regarded as very imperfect by continental jurists. The Porte is engaged in the pro secution of new reforms in the army and navy, and in making every effort of which it is capable, to settle all differences with the Egyptian Viceroy. BELGIAN t UNDS—Baussno, FEB. 24. Actual Debt, `2!,i per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent....... ...... . Loan of Thirty Millions 93% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent O9 Society of Commerce, 4 k.; per Cent 149 Bank of Belgium, a per Cent I47U National Society . —Brussels Papers, Feb. 24. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vmmt, FEB. 16. Five per Cents. Metalliques Foar per Ceuta. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1440 —4llgemeitie Zostung, Feb. 21. Letters and Papers from Madrid to the 17th inst. have been received. Their contents are any thing but satis factory. The Cortes, instead of endeavouring to savo their country, disgust the nation by their acrimonious squabbles. Rumours of the disorganized and distracted state of the Provinces were in the mouth of every body, but no efficacious remedy was expected from the delibera tions, or rather altercations, of the Deputies. The house of ROTHSCHILD was said to have signed a contract for twenty millions of reals, of which it appears a considerable share has already been advanced. No doubt the whole affair is as g ross a job as . the Almaden Mines contract ; and if so, the nation will not be a fraction the better for it. The whole system of the Government is one of violence, fraud, and mystification. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDOS, FEB. 24. BELL'S SCHOLARSHIP.—The Vice-Chancellor has given no tice that an election of Two Scholars upon this foundation will take place on Friday, the 30th of March next. At a congregation on Monday last the following graces passed the Senate : To petition the two Houses of Parliament in favour of the Bill for continuing the Bishopric of Sodor and Man. To authorize the Vice-Chancellor to take such steps as the University Council may deem proper, for obtaining from Mr. Charles Baldwin, as the surety of Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock, the amount of the debt due from them to the Pitt Press. We are informed that the Undergraduate into whose lodg ings a female had introduced herself in male attire, as stated in our police report l as t S a t ur d ay , was, a f ter i n investigation by the College authorities, summarily dimissed from the University. The Rev. John Gilbert, M. A., was last week instituted to the vicarage of Claxton, Norfolk, on the presentation of Sir Charles Henry Rich, Bart. The Rev. Francis Jeune, D. C. L., Head Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham, has been appointed to the deanery of Jersey, with the rectory of St. Helier, in that island. The Rev. H. B. Newman, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, has been presented, by the Warden and Fellows of that society, to the rectory of Little Bromley, Essex. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Charles Lucas Reay, B. A., late of Gosberton, Lincolnshire, to the vicarage Swambourne, Bucks, vacant by the death of the Rev. William Wodley. The Rev. William Matthews Pierce, M. A., has been pre sented to the rectory of Moorby, Lincolnshire, by the Hon. .and Right Rev. Hugh, Lord Bishop of Carlisle. Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a fatal acci dent happened on the rotten ice near the centre of the water in St. Jaroes'a Park. It appear?, that a gentleman who was the passing at time threw his stick on the ice and told some lads who were near that whoever got it should have it. The temptation was unfortunately too strong:for two lads who were on the spot, and one of the of the name of Harris, residing at Ebury-row, Pimlico, raft rs,n the ice and was followed by another lad ; in the struggle to get the stick the ice gave way, and they fell into the water, which is there about eight feet deep. The poor fellows struggled for some time, but no as sistance could be rendered them, as the Royal Humane So ciety had withdrawn all their met. After an interval of nearly half an hour one of the ice teats was brought to the spot, and the policemen on duty and one of the park-keen,ers succeeded in getting the bodies, but life was quite extinct. They were taken to the Westminster Hospital, and afterwarc's to the work Louse, where they await the Coroner's inquest. They were fine lads, about ten or eleven years of age. Both bodies have been owned, b ut t h e name of one has - not been ascertained. The conduct of the gentleman, to say the least of it, was thoughtless and unfeeling in the extreme. It is somewhat surprising, too, and was the subject of general re mark, that the Royal Humane Society should have removed their men at a time when their services would have been essentially useful. A great concourse of spectators was col lected on the banks. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1838. COAL MONOPOLY IN THE PORT OF LONDON. " The result, therefore, is, that at present the factors of London are combined avowedly to limit the supply of coals to the London market, so as to raise the price to the consumtr higher than a free trade would ;command, without profit for the coal-owners ; and also to force on the market a larger pro portion of inferior coals, at prices which could not be main tained otherwise than by such combination."--Evidence before the Committee in the year 1836. The importance of the consumption of coals is increasing every day ; and though the Legislature has made some feeble efforts to break the fetters which prevent that powerful agent of health and manufacturing industry from coming freely to the hand of the large populations of our towns, whose wealth it doubles and whose existence it improves, those efforts have been rendered vain by the unprincipled combination of indivi duals. Some men, whose names we suppress lest we should expose them to public hatred, have audaciously placed them selves between those who extract coals from the pits and the consumers, and levy on both, an annual tax of more than 400,0001. sterling, on a consumption amounting to 2,544,000 tons of coals. Some public Magistrates, in the exercise of their administrative functions, have publicly protected and le galized this mischievous proceeding. Coal, of the first quality, costs at the moment of putting it on board the Colliers in the Tyne per ton 9s. 4id. Freight to London B3. Od. Unloading and Meterage ls. lid, Total 18s. sid. The sum charged for freight, however, as will be seen be fore we have finished, is much increased by the inactivity to which the monopolists condemn the Colliers. CITY OF LONDON TAVERN. We shall now explain the causes which compel the inha bitants of the metropolis to pay from 303. to 40s. a ton for their coals. (THIS DAY.) During the last four years the importation of coals into London, and the increased consumption, has been as follows : No. of ships. Tons. Increase, tons. In 1833 7,077 2,010,409 1834 7,404 2,078,685 68,276 1835 7 958 2,298,812 220,127 1836 8,162 2,398,352 99,540 1837 A numerous meeting of the merchants of London, amongst whom were Messrs. J. W. Buckle, J. Irving, George Lyall, J. J. Capper, J. G. Robinson, J. N. Innes, J. Nesbitt, B. Greene, Bell, Hart, Haes, Bumes ter, Prescott, and Turner, was held here to-day, at one o'clock, pursuers t to a pubilc advertisement. Mr. Alderman COPELAND, M. P., in the Chair. On taking the chair the worthy Alderman said he appeared before them in a mere ministerial character, as the Alderman of the ward. Considering the great importance of the subject, and the number of signatures which had been put to the petition which had been presented to the Gresham Committee, he was astonished at the apathy of the merchants of London. He trusted that they would exert them selves in such a manner, not only with the Gresham Committee, but with the Corporation, in order to obtain such a Royal Exchange as would be worthy of the City of London, and was now necessary for the vastly increased commerce of the City.—(Cheers.) He trusted they would be earnest in the matter, for he believed there was a project on foot for building the Exchange upon its present confined site, which would totally spoil the intentions of the great body of the merchants. Mr. J. S. CAPPER moved the first resolution as follows: — l. Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting, that the assem blage of the merchants, traders, dre., which now takes place daily at Guildhall, should be removed to the Quadrangle of the Excise-office, with as little delay as possible. fn doing so he begged to state that the Government had in the most handsome manner at once acceded to the application for the Quad. rangle of the Excise Office. Every one then present was well aware of the great convenience of the site for the purposes of an Exchange as compared with the Guildhall. He would not detain them longer, as he believed that the proposition had not met with opposition from even one merchant. The motion was seconded by Mr. BURMISTrit, and was carried unanimously. Mr. NESBIrr explained that the Meeting would have been very nu merously attended, only that those wit() had signed the petition to the Gresham Committee, thought that they had given sufficient evidence of their feeling upon the matter. Mr. LYALL said, had he seen the petition, he would have signed it at once, because he was perfectly aware that the Excise Office was the best situation for the Merchants of London, until they had obtained a New Exchange. It was with much pleasure he moved the Resolution which bad been put into his hands. 2d. That a respectful intimation of th• above resolution be given to the Gresham Committee, with a request that they will arrange that it shall be carried into effeet on Monday the sth of March next. Mr. BUCKLE cordially seconded the resolution. No one who had business to attend to but was well aware of the great inconvenience of the present site. They were also bound to consider that in a very short time the Guildhall would be frequently required for corporation pur poses, which would be a source of incalculable inconvenience to Mer chants. The resolution was then passed netn. con. Mr. ROBINSON mowed the thirst resolution, as follows: 3. That the thanks of this meeting, and of the merchants, traders, &c., are due to, and are hereby given to the Lord Mayor, and Corpora tion of the City, for the permission which was so readily and obligingly granted to them to meet at Guildhall after the disastrous fire at the Royal Exchange. He did so much pleasure, as every merchant in London wag cer tainly much obliged for the liberality of the Corporation. Mr. FAvENCE seconded the resolution, which, like the others, was passed unanimously. Totals 11,330,258 533,591 The total quantity of coals imported into London for the five years, sold at 235. per ton, the average price amounts to 13,029,8061., which is distributed as follows: The expence of putting the coals into the ships, which is divided amongst the coal-owners and colliers, is £5,287,453 Freight, which pays the ship's owners, seamen's wagzs, &c. Expense of unloading, whippers, barge-owners, meters, &c. The Corporation of London levied FACTORS FOIL THEIR MONOPOLY Mr. POWELL thought they were especially indebted to the Lord Mayor for putting down the Bell nuisance.—(Laughter.) They were not now so annoyed the moment it struck half.past three as they for. merly were. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the resolutions ordered to be published, when the meeting broke up. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) YOUGHA L. The Committee met at eleven o'clock, when a discussion took place as to permitting witnesses to remain in the room during the examination of others. It being decided that only official witnesses should be allowed, Mr. Harrison applied for leave to retain in the room a Mr. Markham, who was the agent of the sitting Member in Youghal, and whose assis tance would be constantly required by Cpunsel during the examination of witnesses, as he was the only agent they had who was acquainted with the borough. After much discussion, Mr. Markham was allowed to remain, except during the investigation of any case in which he was to be called as a witness. Total XI 3,029,80 G Besides this sum the factors receive 3d. per ton more than the 235. mentioned as the average price, making 141,6231. and making their whole gains amount to 2,159,639/. About 260,000 householders of London purchase their coals in small quantities of 251bs. 501bs. or 1001bs., and have paid from to 40s. per ton, making on the average of 365. About 40,000 householders, and public establish ments, purchase their coals in tons or larger quantities, and they hare paid from 30s. to 365. per ton, makini; on an average of 30s. Mr. HARRISON then applied for the adjournment of this Committee, in consequence of the non.arrival of his witnesses from Youghal, the delay bning occasioned by the late heavy fall of snow in the south of Ireland, which rendered the roads in that part almost impassible. Mr. Pottocx consented to the adjournment, on payment of the costs of the day. The Hon. A. A. COWPER, a Member of the Committee, asked How much will you give us ? Are we to be paid for our loss of time (A laugh.) The agreement for the costs of the day having been drawn up, and the order for the payment (upon taxation) being signed by the Chair man, the Committee adjourned to eleven o'clock to.morrow. 10,197,223 per ton Making together, a sum of paid by the consumers in five years for 11,330,258 tons of coals, which cost to king them to the Thames less than 11,000,0001 The agents of the monopoly, however, the factors only, have levied on the population of London, during the last five years, the enormous sum of Two MILLIONS, ONE HUNDRED ♦ND FIFTY-NINE THOU SAND, SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE POUNDS STERLING. Thus the colliers, who descend into the bowels of the earth, and expose themselves to those dangers w5-.leh every hour threaten their lives, to gain a wretched subsistence, and the sailors, who brave all the storms of our coasts, and all the dangers of shipwreck, to gain a subsistence not more abundant than that of the colliers, are only the instruments for supplying food for these rapacious monopolists. If any accident happen :to the colliers (and our readers know they are subject to numerous accidents) they and their fami lies must be provided for by the coal owners. If, too, any captain of a Collier wishes to throw off the odious yoke of this tyranny, like Captain Thompson of the brig Eliza, which was proved before the Committee of the House of Commons on the 21st instant, he is regarded by the whole body of the coal owners like a person infected with the plague, and by the official and avowed command of the factors, all the collieries are shut against him, and not one single cargo of coals is he allowed to have. This is done, too, in the teeth of an Act of Parliament called the Turn Act, which levies a fine of lob/. on the owner of every mine which refuses to load a vessel in its proper turn. About 260,000 houses in the metropolis are the unhealthy abodes of a dense population, for which 20 lbs. of Coal at least arc necessory per day, for every inhabited room, whether it be for cooking, or for purifying the air, loaded with moisture, and with deleterious gases, at a period when the inclemency of the weather will not allow a window to be opened, to obtain a free circulation. Brewers, Distillers, Gas Companies, Manufacturers in general, hotel and tavern keepers, bakers, asylums, h osp it a ls, prisons, barracks, and about 40,000 housekeepers in easy and opulent circumstances, as well as the working population, pay their part of this tribute, which is equally levied upon the rich as on the poor, whose lives it embitters, and whose houses it renders insalubrious. The Legislature passed an Act in vain, in the last Session, to authorise a Company to form a dock for unloading colliers, in which, guarded against every accident, they could easily and speedily have been unloaded, returning immediately for a fresh cargo. The salutary measure would put an end to the factors and their monopoly, and therefore it has not been successful. The Collier Dock at Rotherhitho is still in the same state as it was in the month of July, 1837. Let us now see the effects of the monopoly of the factors on the expense of a brig of 350 tons, or 220 registered tons. A brig of this size is navigated at the expense of about 11b/. her voyage. Each voyage is completed on the average in thirty-three days, or the vessel makes eleven voyages in the year. Her time is thus occupied : Days. 1. To go to the colliery requires 4 2. To return 3. To unload 5 4. Waiting for the good pleasure of the Factors and speculators of London and Newcastle, and lying in inactivity Total.-- At 3/. 10s. per day, the crew expends in inactivity 70/. per month, or for the eleven voyages in the year, 770/. As the vessel in her eleven voyages has brought to market 3,850 tons of coals, these days of inactivity are paid for by the consumer at the rate of 4s. per ton. This state of things cannot be continued without danger, for the population of London, and of the coal districts, and the ship owners, arc equally interested in putting an end to it. If the monopoly of the factors were legally destroyed, coals from the Humber, the Trent, the Ouse, and Whitehaven, might be brought to London concurrently with those from the Tyne, and might be sold in London on the average of 16s. per ton all through the year. Very soon, on such conditions, the consumption would be doubled, for the artizans and the middle classes do not now consume the half of that which is required, by a regard to the health of the former, and by the social conditionof the latter. Let it not b.; supposed that the legal suppression of a mo nopoly, originally instituted for the general benefit, which has been perverted an so scandalous a manner, would give rise to a still greater et il, the want of coals in a severe winter. Naviga tion is certainly more safe in summer than winter, and the silipownem would take care to bring a sufficient supply during the fit le weather. Besides that the habits of saving economy and foresight which are now common t o t h e labouring classcs, as testified by the Savings Banks, will no doubt lead to the formation of Companies for supplying fuel, which will guarantee the hearth of the poor, as well as that of the riot , against any new monopoly. Such Compa nies will be found as useful to the great body of the consumers as water and as Companies now arc. ..„ ) ,,, k _ t x..., ..! 4t,\L' ,f0.,5.'- . -.4 it=.9 /..,.._„ -,-.,- . , . Zhe 2un. IPSWICH. The Committee assembled at the usual hour. At the close of Saturday's proceedings Mr. Tune!' was in a majority of one. The scrutiny was continued, and the Tories succeeded in striking off the rote of Mr. Lawrance, clerk to the Justices, on the ground that at the election he acted as Deputy Mayor, though he had refused to receive the two guineas to which he was entitled for the service. They then objected to the vote of John Beard, on the ground of his being a parish constable. At the time our Reporter left, Mr. Tuffnell was in a majority of one, and the Committee had taken time to consider whether the election should be declared null and void or not. (To be concluded In our Second Edition.) BELFAST. The scrutiny into Lord 'Belfast's votes still continues, and will occupy a considerable time. CRIMINAL COURT-(T111S DAY). OLD CO URT. The Sessions opened this morning at Eleven o'Clock, before the Right Hon. the Loan MAYOR, the RECORDER, Alderman Sir C. MARSHALL, Alderman PRICE, the Sheriffs, and other civic authorities. The Grand Jury having been impannelled, The RECORDRR said—During the interval of three weeks, since the last Session, 9•?.8 prisoners had been committed for trial, and twelve more would shortly be added. There did not, however, appear to he many cases of a singular nature. There was a charge of arson, that is, of burning a dwelling-house (which by a recent Act was a capital crime) which would occupy a considerable time. The charge was made against an individual who carried on business as a linen-draper in the house, chiefly on the ground that shortly before the fire he had removed cer tain goods which afterwards appeared ii his account of the damage he had sustained. Of course the case would rest principally on circum stantial evidence, and as it was of a rather complicated description, an officer of the Court would attend the Grand Jury with the depositions. There was also a charge of coining, by colouring a sixpence, so as to make it pass for a half-sovereign. Under the last statute relating to coining, the sixpence so dealt with, came distinctly within the words " counterfeit coin." There was a charge of secreting a letter, agains a persen employed by the Post-office, an offence, which by an Act, the Ist of her present Majesty's reign was, felony, whether the letter did or did not contain any thing valuable. Several cases of manslaughter, cutting and maiming, burglary, perjdry, &c., appeared in the calendar, but though of a highly serious nature, they were unhappily of too fre quent and ordinary occurrence to require particular remark. The Grand Jury then proceeded to the discharge of their duties. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) Fea. 24.—Wind S.S.W. moderate.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Tribune from the westward, and remains in the Downs- Came down from the River and proceeded the Tagus, Symons, for Gibraltar; Brilliant, Yabsley, for St. Michael's. Feb. 25.—Wind S.S.E., fine-- Arrived and proceeded for the river the Campbells, Currie, and Lucre. tia, Muirhead, from Demerara ; Papineau, Allan, from Havannah ; Clif. ton, ---, from St. Kitt's; Vibelia, Richardson, from Philadelphia; Resolution, Garbutt; from South Seas ; Reliance, Warner, from Calcutta; Idris, Lea, from Berbice ; Envoy, Dunn, from New York. Porrsmorrtt, FEB. 24.—Wind S.S.E. to S.S.W., hazy, with rain.— Arrived, Leonora Maria, from Rio Janeiro ; Mediator, Champlin, from New York; Comet, Bloomfield, from Smyrna, Passed by, Reliance, Warner, from Calcutta for Lowden, with loss of sails, main yard, &c.— sailed Bth Oct., Cape 18th, St. Helena 26th Dec. In lat. 3, lon. 23, spoke the John Dennison, out 27 days ; the Mobile for Berbice. Sailed Columbine, (steamer) on a cruise. Feb. 25., Wiad S.S.W. to S.S.E. fine.—The Dart, Quinton, from Jersey', with potatoes, fell over this morning on Gosport Beach ; she is much strained, and full •f cargo; the cargo is discharging. It blew a heavy gale last night from S.S. W., but moderated this morning. The whole of the outward bound ride in safety. Donut, Fau. 25.—The Aurora, Cooper, from London to Newfound. land, was brought into harbour on the .3d instant, very leaky, and rudder unshipped, and must discharge to repair. CORK, Fan. 20.—Part of the stern of a vessel, marked John Harvey, has come on shore. KING ROAD, Fen. 24.—Arrived, the Brothers, from Trieste. TOAHLY, FEB. 24.—Arrived, the Caraboo, Porteus, from Monte Video ; the Fancy, You'll, front St. Michael's. PLYMOUTH, Faa. 24.—Arrived, her Majesty's ship Inconstant, from Halifax ; the Ellen, Lincoln, St. Michael's. FAINOUTI, Fan. 24.—Arrived, the Amphitrite, Calls, prom Rio Ja.. neiro ; the Dovecot, Thompson, from Port au I'rinee. Llvearoot, Faa. 24.—Wind K S.E., fresh.—Arrived, the Cheerful, Fieley, from Mauritius ; the Sarrapa Segundo, Silva, from Terceira. s a iled, the Roscoe, for New York; the Emily Wardle, for Pernambuco. Feb. Wind S.E., fresh.—Sailed, the Rowena, for Pern a mbuco ; the Esther, for Calcutta ; the Eli Whitney, for Savannah ; the Van_ della, for Mobile. FEN. 25.—Arrived the Annie, Paton, from Odessa; Isis, Scott, f ro m Vostizza; Vivid, Orfeur, from Vestiaza. Cowes, FEL 25.—Arrived the Frederick, Abeille, from Batavia; William Parker, Sower, from Rio Janeiro ; Maria, Bryn, from Rio Janeiro ; Alcyon, Roublon, from Rio Janeiro ; Hermos, Habanero, from Havannah. Cott:, FED. 24.—Arrived the Columbus, Pentrcath, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Sirius (steamer), from London. SCILLY, Fee. 25.—Arrived off port the Chievra, from Charleston. Arrived off the Start, on the 25th February, the Charles Carroll, from New York. The Arrow, from Wexford to Gloucester, was totally wrecked near the Hook Light on the 16th inst.—crew saved. The Brunswick, Collins, from Maryport to Chepstow, was fallen in with on the 18th inst. in lat. 50. lon. 12., with loss of mainmast and sails, and nearly all her ballast washed away, by the Vibelia, Richard son, arrived in the Downs, which vessel supplied her with water and some stores. The Beau Ideal, Bull, from St. Michael's, put into Salcombe, with damage. The Leander, Hayward, from Llanelly, put into Falmouth ; part of cargo thrown overboard, bound to Constantinople. The Benwell, Moody, of Newcastle, bound to London, struck on Sheringham Shoal on Saturday morning, got Wand sunk, crew saved. The Mary Ann, Atherton, from Liverpool, put into Falmouth, with part of cargo thrown overboard, bound to Calais. ARMY.—The Service Companies of the 23d and 71st Regiments, which are orde re d t o b e h e ld i n rea di ness f or embarkation for Canada, are to be augmented to 600 rank and file. The establishment of the depots of these regiments will, consequently, be reduced to 139 rank and file, being an in crease upon the whole of 80 men to each corps. The second battalion of the Coldstream Guards, also under orders for Canada, are to be armed with muskets with percussion locks. We are informed that carabines, with percussion locks, are about to be issued to the cavalry generally. It has been stated in a morning paper, that the 86th Regiment is to proceed to Dublin, and that the 54th Regiment will be relieved in India by the 21st Regiment. No orders to the above effect have been issued to the 86th Regiment, and the 54th Regiment will be relieved by the 4th Foot.— United Service Gazette. MARYLEBONE ELECTION. MEETING OF COL. THOMPSON'S FRIENDS. A meeting of the electors of the borough of Maryle bone, favourable to the return of Colonel Thompson, was held this day, at one o'clock, at the Mechanics' Institu tion, Circus -street, New-road. The room was crowded long , before the time of commencing the proceedings ; and on the Gallant Colonel entering the meeting he was loudly and en thusiastically cheered. On the motion of Mr. YOUNG, D. W. Harvey, Esq., M. P., was called upon to preside. The CHAIRMAN said, though he did not doubt that a great diversity of opinion prevailed in the meeting, yet he felt as sured there would be an anxious desire to give every gentle man a fair and candid hearing.—(Cheers.) However per sons of opposite creeds might feel the advantage of con cealing the truth, that could not be the object of men who wished to advance the cause of freedom.—(Cheers. ) - Nlarylebone must always hold a prominent place ; but at the present moment, when the eye of the nation was directed to their conduct, it was of importance the country should be made familiar with the objects they meant to pursue. With Lord Teignmouth and the Tories they had nought to do but to beat them.—( Cheers.) The great question was, who was the best man to record the objects for which they were attending? It would not advantage the cause of Colonel Thompson to say anything in aid of the cause of Mr. Ewart, who was an honest and able man.--( Cheers.) The question was, what were the superior claims of Mr. Ewart to lead the electors to introduce him to the prejudice of one who was a candidate previously? —( Cheers.) When the question was urged, why the parti zans of Colonel Thompson step in, it was for the advocates of Ewart to say why he stepped in to defeat the paramount claims of Colonel Thompson.—(Loud cheers.) It was con ceded by the friends of Mr. Ewart that Colonel Thompson was a respectable character, and as uniform and consistent in his public principles. The obligation was thrown on Mr. Ewart to establish his priority of pretension. It was as sumed that Ewart could succeed—that Colonel Thomp son must fail. If Col. Thompson's character and principles were as pure as those of Mr. Ewart—if he was a candidate when Mr. Swart was a candidate for another place—why was it to be said that Mr. Ewart must succeed, and Colonel Thompson must fail ?—( Cheers.) They meant to say that Mr. Ewart was a Whig-Radical, and that Colonel Thompson was a pure Radical.—(Loud cheers.) It was precisely on that ground that he (Mr. Harvey) gave countenance to the pretensions of the latter, by whom the Radicals of Marylebone ought to take their stand. It was said that the reform interest would be down, and Lord Teign mouth be successful. In the degree, Mr. Ewart's friends be lieved it to be true—ought they to be anxious to withdraw (one of the two). Mr. Ewart's party maintained, that if the two were to stand, Lord Teignmouth must come in. To give then the full weight to the concession that Lord Teignmouth must succeed, it becomes them to con sider whether they were not the parties to bring about that evil.—(" No," and loud cries of" Yea, yes," and " Poor Law Bill.") It was incumbent on the friends of Mr. Ewart to chew that if he were to retire, and Colonel Thompson to stand, that the latter could not fight Lord Teignmouth single handed.—(" He could.") He called on the friends of Mr. Ewart to answer that question. It must be, either that he was not so acceptable—that was disclaimed. Was it because he was not so good a politician ? No; it was because he did not belong to the party who were lending a blind adherence to the Whig Government— ( Loud cheers.) While, on the other hand, Colonel Thompson did not conceal his opinion that, from the moment the Ad dress of the Queen, to the present, the Ministry had not en joyed the public opinion. —( Cheers.) On the present de cision depended the question whether the present Govern ment enjoyed the confidence of the country.—( Cheers.) The electors ought now to give a practical proof of their opinion. The question put to gentlemen advocating the same opinion as the Gallant Colonel, was, " Do you wish to return the Tories to office ?" The answer was " No—the Tories are at present in office."—( Loud cheers.) It might be said that Mr. Ewart was of the same sentiment.—(No, he is a shuffing Whig.) He was copious in his lamentations over the defects of the Government, but always reverted to the question, What were they to do ?—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) This was a struggle of mighty importance ; the country was looking intently on the present struggle, and the electors ought to be ready to say, if asked why they prefer Colonel Thompson to Mr. Ewart, because be was as good as Mr: Ewart—that they prefered him to Mr. Ewart because he was a candidate before Mr. Ewart was thought of made a disinterested retirement when his continuance might have injured the popular cause —that they were for him in preference to Mr. Ewart because they were fearful he was only a blind follower of the Whigs. —(" No," "Yes, yes.") that they were for Colonel Thompson, because he would be• what he had ever been, an active and disinterested, and en lightened friend of the people.—(Cheers.) Colonel Thomp son was the advocate of a system of policy which would give some value to labour by extinguishing all injurious monopolies —that encouragement to industry which would destroy all unnecessary burdens bearing unduly upon the people.--(" So will Ewart.") So would Mr. Ewart, but he would not do so if by any motion or proceeding it was calculated to damage the character or endanger the continuance of the Govern ment. Finally, if they were asked would they support the man who would give a triumph to the Tories? The an swer was, that Mr. Ewart was pursuing that dangerous course. (" No," " Yes, yes," and loud cheers.) Which was the more censurable in him and his party, because they viewed such a change in the Government as a more perilous proceeding than the friends of Col. Thompson.—(Loud cheers.) Colonel THOMPSON then came forward, and was received with loud and long-continued cheering. He hoped they would al low him to go back a little, because it was from past facts alone that men could shape their judgment of the present and future.—(Hear, hear.) He would not repeat at length the circumstances to which the Chairman had alluded, but they were aware that he fairly and honourably re tired at a former election, in consequence of the ma jority which had been put forward against him, at a meeting of the electors.—( Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) He felt that as a fair and honest man, conscious of the impor tance which union was to a party, he was bound to sacrifice any feeling of ambition or personal interest to the public good. Another circumstance hid occurred to which he called their attention, inasmuch as he thought it gave him some claim to their support. At the last general election he received in vitations from two important boroughs in the North, for which there was already a Whig candidate in the field.—( Hear, hear.) The invitation was accompanied with an intimation that there was not the slightest doubt of his success, an assurance which was confirmed by the fact that the gentleman who was his opponent, and who was a firm opponent of the Ballot during the previous session of Parliament, had abstained ever since he had obtained his seat for the borough alluded to by his (Colonel Thompson's) resignation, from either speaking or voting against that question. Well, he retired from that contest, although assured of success, because while he disapproved of many of the measures of the Ministry, he did not wish to hazard a vote to the cause of general liberty.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) In acting thus he had only done what an honest man and a prudent leader of the people would be expected to do under the same circumstances. For this he ought to have been treated with tenderness and consideration, but instead of that he had been attacked, not by the Whigs, but by the Whig-Radicals, with whom he was more nearly connected, and that too in the very place where he had attempted to raise a little fabric of wholesome popularity, and a candidate was started behind his back. He would tell the meeting the history of that part of the pro ceeding. At the end of the last year, or the beginning of the present, Mr. Ewart, his rival candidate, called on him at his house and said, " Are you going to stand for Marylebone?" He (Mr. T.) answered, Yes, he was ; he had been in the field since the last election, and he was pledged to his friends. Mr. Ewart replied, Oh I then perhaps I ought not to hare spoken to you.—( Laughter.) There was in history—stated this fact with respect to a French diplo matist—old Talleyrand--that some man had said of him, that if any person, in the presence of a full Court was to give Talleyrand a blow behind he certainly would not show the least perturbility in his countenance.—( Cheers.) Mr. Ewart had not arrived at that state yet. Mr. Ewart let out that he had committed a political fault.— (Loud and continued cheering.) Mr. Ewart had shown that he had done all to supplant him.—( Cheers.) Was that fair and proper ?—(Closers and cries of " No, no,) And to prove that, he would tell them further, that no con sultation had been held with him to shew that the pub lic cause would be injured by his standing.—( Cheers.) The whole proceeding was one for the purpose of endeavour ing to oust hitn.—( Cheers, and cries of " Shame.") Would it not, he would ask, have been decent that somebody should have communicated with him on the subject ? He did not confine himself to Mr. Ewart ; he thought Mr. Hume might have made some communication to him on the snbject ; if he had, be could have shown him some reasons why he should not have supported Mr. Ewart. One reason was, that he could not retire from Marylebone—(Cheers)—because n hay'l g been deceived by the Whigs he had d ec l ared that he would stand for the first place where he could have a favourable opportunity of opposing the Whigs.—(Cheers.) If h e was under such circumstances to retire from the contest of the borough, it would be said he was a bully.—( Cheers. ) He could also have pointed out to Mr. Hume if he communicated with him, the imprudence of placing any man in opposition him ; he could have pointed out to him the impolicy of pro moting a supporter of the Poor-law.—( Cheers, which lasted for several minutes. ) The CHAIRMAN rose and requested that if any gentleman was incommoded, the door was open and he might withdraw. Laughter. ) Colonel THOMPSON resumed :—He could have told Mr. Hume that if he brought into Marylebone the constant supporter of the principle of the Poor-law Bill, such a man would find that vastly more than two hun dred would vote for the Tory in preference to him.—( Cries of " No, no," and " Yes, y es ," w i th loud cheers.) Whereas the majority, upon whi c h at b est the Liberal would expect, was about four hundred. This he could have told, if he had been asked, which was not the case, for they came into the borough behind his back.—( Loud cheering.) Now he came to the more melancholy part of the history.— ( Hear, hear.) A meeting was called at the Yorkshire Stingo, by a public advertisement, in which it was stated that the object of the meeting was to bring about an accommodation between the Liberal Members, and that Col. Thompson was invited. Besides, he received a letter from Mr. Love, Secretary of Mr. Ewart's committee, meeting at the Cape of Good Hope, in Albany-street, to the same effect as the advertise ment, although (as we underatood):Mr. Love had published in The Sun a letter in quite a different spirit.—( Hear, hear. ) Being so invited, what eould he do but go? He went, and he found on the walls of the Yorkshire Stingo placards de- Glaring that the meeting was a public meeting of the friends of Mr. Ewa&t_(Hear, and a laugh)—and on going into the Committee-room, he was told by the Chairman that the meet ing was not public—(Laughter, and cries of " Shame")--and Mr. Hume, who was present, said that the invitation sent hint (Colonel Thompson) to attend was a mistake, committed by a District Committee.—( Laughter, and cries of " Shame.") (To be concluded in our Second Edition.) THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There were moderate arrivals of English Grain aad Flour in the past week, but a good quantity of Oats from Ireland. Little business trans acted, during the week, and prices were unvaried. This morning the fresh supplies of all kinds of Corn are short, the vessels being out, of course, in consequence of the late interruption from the frost. Fine Wheat very scarce, has obtained rather higher prices, while the other samples being chiefly tender and of middling quality sold slowly at last quotations. Barley still meets a dull sale, and with difficulty maintains its former value. Beans and Pease support their late quotations. In the Oat trade there has been a fair extent of business at the same prices as last week. Flour meets a moderate de mand, and all descriptions are unchanged in value. riucEs ON BOARD •F SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) s2s. 625. Beans, Small (new) 36s 330 -White (01d)... No. r6s. - Red ,1837 423. 465. - Tick (new) 2Bs 31s. - Fine 50s. Ms. Superfine '-Ns. 60s. - Harrow (new) '24.345. - White (1837) 445. 535. ------ Fine 54s Me. Brank Superfine fills 6.1.5. Oats, Feed --Foreign free ...... ...50s. i)Bs. Rye 30s. 34s -- Poland Barley 22, 25*. New 20.4.24.. - Grinding 21- 275. - Potatee . 264.'2.8 . - Malting 30s. 345. Malt 465. 545, - Scotch 24=.27•. - Fine New 565. 60s, - Irish 17s 208.23.. Pease, Grey, New 30s. 31s. Flour Town s per 5ack)....... 50..52., - Maple New '32x. p 33. - Seconds 45,.451. - 'White 355. 35: - North Country 42; 4is - Boilers 375. 385.1 Brats B. 9:. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEE,. ' Wheat. Barley. oats. t.14..a Engii,,h Irish - - 4,817 Foreign I - - - --... • • SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. 7 A moderate supply today, and a moderate demand. Lent being 1107 , 1 about makes a diff er e nce f or th e worse i n the meat trade. Inferio Beef rather lower. Good Beef unaltered. Mutton rather dearer. 'Veal a little cheaper. Pork as before. PRICES PER STONE OF BLB. TO SINK THE OFFAL,. 1 s. d. to s. d. 1. d. to s. Interior Beasts Second quality ditto 2 6 3 0 Second quality ditto 3 4 Sel Prime large Oxen 3 0 3 8 Coarinf.woolled ditto 3lO 4 f l'i , rie Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves....,, 4 8 5 4 Large Hogs 3 2 4 l'rlme small ditto 5 6 6 0 Small Porkers • Suckling Calves ,each ...17 0 35 lil Quarter old Pig teach) 12 u 20 0 ; SUPPLY AT MARKET. n2asts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pits 3,731 40,491 ICi 666 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d. Setif, inferior 2lO 3 8 Mutton, inferior _ middling . ..... ....... 3 2 3 4 -- middling - prime large 3 4 3 6 - prime --- prime small 3 8 310 Pork, large Veal CITY FISH MARKET. 'illiM More Fish at Market to-day than on Saturday, and prices To Trade fair. Lobsters dear, Is. 6d. to 4s. for large ; Cod, Is. 6d. to 141.. for large; Turbot, 55. to 238: ; Whiting, 4d. to Bd. each; Haddock, bd. to 10d. each, 2. El. to 2 EL 34 0 6 9 8 310 310 4 0 32 4 6 4 8 5 4: PROVISION MARKET. There is not much doing in this market, nor is there much expected even to be done if the frost now permanently leaves us. Prices of all kinds remain much as they were last week. BERMONDSEY WATER SIDE POTATOE MARKET. The supplies to-day were moderate, and the quality necessarily affected by the weather. Trade was to a fair extent, and prices re main as they were this day week, which prices we gave in our report of Wednesday last. TALLOW MARKET. There is not much doing in this department, and the price continues at 495. 6d. COLONIAL MARKETS. To-day we have no public sales; but for the week there is a fair business advertised, and as the frost seems now about permanently to to leave us, extensive transactions are expected. Business which has been bound, will become liberated. The chief sales for to morrow are Rice, Havannah and Manilla Sugar and Brazil Coffee, with some spices. The market is in a firm state, and we ghoul& say in good condition for the sellers. The imports are slender, an.sl , so are the exports; but the deliveries at the Customs greater than; they have been for the last seven or eight weeks. DERBY CORN MARKET, FEB. 24. Our Corn Market yesterday was well supplied with fine Wheat, and made last weeks' prices. Inferior was very much looked after. Fine Barley was also in good demand. Oats continue scarce. Best Wheat 575. to 595. ; Fine Barley 30s. to 335. ; Grinding ditto 265. to 286. ;, Old Beans 425. 455. ; New ditto 30s. 345. MANCHESTER CORN MARKET, FEB. 24. The improvement noted in our last has since been fully confirmed, and though the extent of business done during the week has not bee , ' considerable, the tendency of prices has been upwards. The import, which is and has been for some time confined to Irish produce, is "S heavy. Wakefield and Liverpool both steady yesterday. At our Market this morning the business done was confined to the supply consumptive demand. Fine Irish Wh ea t s b roug h t i n some instan ces Is. per bushel more than on thi s d a y wee k . Fl our f i rm at late rate s. Good qualities of Oats %d. to ld. per b us h e l , an d M eal 6d. per loa d higher. Dry Beans and fine Malt on the spot br oug ht ratter more money. The stocks of all articles except Meal are l ow t h roughout this district, whilst in the agricultural countie s p r i ces arc f i rm and rather advancing. of the LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Fsa. 24. Our market today has passed off rather quietly, about 2,300 bags being the entire quantity purchased; but as holders showed no dispo— sition to push their stock into the market, no change has occurred in. the rates. Barley. s. d. to s. d. 0 12 0 0 10 —092 0 8 " Oats .1 —o 8 g -- 0 9 6 _ gg —96 0 7 —O9O 0 0 0 10 0 7 0 8 u 0 11 0 0 9 0 CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. Truro Helstone St. Austell Bodmin Liskeard Launceston Came!ford Penzance s. d. to s. d. 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 6 0 19 6 0 17 0 0 19 6 16 0 19 0 19 0 21 0 Quantity of Copre, Quantity of fine Cc :INING INTO Ore sold [.. L I GPNCE. Tons. Cwt. 9" .......... ..... ...... ....2,064, 0 4) .......................... 165 0 0 .......................... 67, .verage Standard, 1081. ai d . 011. Average Produce., Amount of S1e,11: ?.`_941.185. 6d.—A ----- CONFLAGRATION OF MORDEN MILLS, NEAR MERTON, SURREY.—On Thursday night last, between nine and ten o'clock, the well-known and extensive mills, called Morden Mills, near the village of Merton, in the courrty of Surrey, were totally destroyed by fire, and all their valuable contents; they are the property of Messrs. Taddy, Attselds and Co., snuff-manufacturers, of the Minories, and were situate on the banks .f the river Wandle, and occupy a considerable space of land ; they ware considered, for extent and completeness for the manufacturing of snuffs, the most important in the country. It appears that the fire commenced in the eastern mill, and was occasioned by some defect in a drying stove, 'Mien was erected in an apartment in the lower part of the building. Immediately on the intimation of the fire in Merton, the engine belonging to the parochial authorities was drawn on the spot, and was instantly put into motion; but, however, before a drop of water was thrown on the mills, the whole of them, and also one of the dwelling-houses, presented oac body of lurid fire, producing such intense heat that it was impos sible to approach the premises. At a few minutes before eleven o'clock one of the horse patrol arrived at the South wark station of the fire establishment, and gave intelligence of the conflagration, at the same time stating that muck alarm existed for the safety of the adjoining property.. The engines from Waterloo-road and Far ringdon-street were instantly sent off, each, of them accompanied by a strong muster of firemen, and about twelve o'clock arrived at Morden, and were followed shortly after by the powerful engine of the West of England, drawn by post-horses. At this period the saving of any portion of the extensive mills was impossible. The roof of the dwelling-house of Mr. Attfield was then ora fire, but that was, on the London engines being got to work, soon extinguished. The reflection of the devouring element was seen by the fire-brigade as soon as they had got out of London, and had a terrific appearance. The excitement that it produced in the country was very great; gentlemen from all parts of Surrey were on the spot, and the village of Merton was crowded. The mills, with all the machinery and stock, are totally consumed, and nothing now remains of them but a vast heap of smouldering ruins. The whole of the property consumed and destroyed is insured to the full extent.. in the Globe Fire-office. FATAL EVENT.—On Wednesday Mr. John Day't of Evesham, attended a sale of wood at Offenham, where ne stopped until after dark. Wishing to cross the river Avon,, as his nearest way home, he called up the ferryman, who re fused to venture out, in consequence of the dangerous :nide of the river from the floating masses of ice. Day said he did not care, and if the man would not take him he would row over alone, and got into the boat for that purpose. In the morning the boat was found as far down the river as th .e ice would allow it to go, and Day's hat was seen on the ie., near it : but the unfortunate man has not since been hearsd of.--- Worcester Journal. On Tuesday morning, between the hours of s ix a nd seven o'clock, the steam -ship, Juno, a vessel of great p o wer and dimensions, was going down the pool, outward bound and on arriving off Cherry-garden tier, Rotherhithe, she fell in with a barge laden with four rooms of coals, belonging to Mr. Sant of the Adelphi, proceeding towards London Bridge with the tide. The barge's head was to the northward— there was nothing else in the way—.ar.d, consequently, plenty' of room for the steam-ship to go clear of her. The Junoi, however, went right into the barge with tremendous force, and run her down, cutting away her stern. The lighterrnan, who was navigating the barge, jumped overboard directly th' e collision took place, and was fortunately picked up by a waeir man named Wallineer, who was passing in his wherry. Th e barge immediately began to fill, and about ten minutes aftet•- wards sunk with her cargo. The paddle-floats of We Jun.° were so much damaged by the collision with the br.rge th . st she was o bli ge d to put back to her moorings. Th e iujutri having been made good she started again, soon after nil,' o'clock, and proceeded on her voyage. The Rec.:Meat is at-- tributable to the man at the steamer's helm not steering her properly when called to by the pilot on the paddle-box. The Duke of Beaufort left Park-place for Bath, on his way to Badminton, on Thursday. His Grace will con tinue to hunt the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire country unttl the close of the Session in April. On Monday night Mr. Dawson, a respectable shipowner of Yarmouth wandered down to the North Defies ,- whilst labouring under delirium from illness, and got on dot: lee. O n t h e fo ll ow i ng morning the poor gentleman's ba,t was found fl oat i ng on the water sustained by a large piece , ice, and frozen to death.—Norfolk Chronicle.